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[Weigookin74]

Why do all the teachers have their heads up their butt when it comes to this? They just seem to lazy to get involved. Always seems my observation, though I have tried to stop it sometimes. I mean you read this stuff and it's just discusting:

http://www.koreabang.com/2012/stories/bullied-students-last-sms-if-you-dare-come-to-my-funeral.html

[Steelrails]

In individual cases, not much you can do.
As a teacher you can't do anything to stop it unless it is in your immediate vicinity. As soon as the student and bully are out of your line of sight, the bully will just start up again.
Of course you can speak to the parents of both parties and the kids themselves, but chances are that that will have no effect. Maybe the parents can get the kid to change schools, but that is no guarantee that at the new school they won't be targeted. Maybe the bully's parents will convince the kid to stop. The problem is that for such a long period of time, there is no one to watch what goes on.

And the sad thing is, at an individual level, at some point the victim has to stand up for themselves in some manner.

Beyond the individual level, one has to promote a positive and cooperative classroom environment. This means a fun atmosphere, no tolerance for fighting, arguing, and meanness, rewards for helping others, and more.

[Mix1]

[transmogrifier]

It sucks being a teacher in this situation, because if you do things like befriend the bullied student in an attempt to counsel them and show them a friendly face at school, or organise to talk to the parents of the bully etc, then chances are you are providing even more of a "reason" for the bullying.

I guess you have to be hypervigilant at school and come down like a tonne of bricks on those little shits who bully others when you catch them in the act.

It's a tough one.

[optik404]

There's a recent news article about parents hiring scary looking gangsters to pick up their kid after school so bully's will stop messing with them.

[Weigookin74]

[Steelrails]

[Who's Your Daddy?]

There's a bullying problem because the schools are so big, the same is true back home.

[dairyairy]

Bullying in Korean schools is a big problem. Remember The "Naked graduations" of a few years ago? But what can a foreign teacher do? Not much.


The fact that Korean fathers are absent from the lives of so many of these young people makes an impact over issues like these. This is where Korean fathers need to be teaching their kids how to defend themselves and how to make sure that bullies never bother them again. Unfortunately there will be bullies around all of their lives and many do not bully in the physical sense. Too many mothers don't give the right advice in these situations. These kids need a positive male role model to teach them how to fight back.

[schwa]

[fermentation]

[Old fat expat]

Hierarchy

It's imbedded in their language and imbedded in their culture.

Adolescence

Don't know the rules properly yet and are experimenting, quite often in a very clumsy way. In-crowd, out-crowd--it's a heaving mess of promotion/demotion.

Teachers

Should have a role in mediating/managing. Just like a good rugger ref. Man, I've had some sheyit refs in my time though.

[PatrickGHBusan]

This is a tough one.

As a Teacher what you can do is limited to your classroom. Once the students are out of your classroom, you have no power or say. A lot of bullying occurs in the schoolyard or even outside of school limits. Tons more now occurs online through social media and as a teacher not only have you no control over this but trying to mediate or deal with online bullying may land you in a deep pool of stinking trouble.

As a parent, you have to educate your kids about bullying, explain what to look out for and how to deal with bullies.

Schools can help by offering more education on this issue but at the same time, kids and teens can be damn mean to each other.

[jvalmer]

[Julius]